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his death, showing that he was active in land deals. Now there was an Edward
[4] Peavey, who evidently lived in Nottingham from 1755 to 1765 and bought
and sold land from 1755 to 1765, or later. He conveyed (according to the
Concord Archives) to Thomas Tash as late as 1765. Now Thomas Tash later
lived in New Durham, and it may be this Edward [4] of Nottingham who moved
to New Durham after this town was organized, and was the Edward [4] above
referred to.
Whose son this Nottingham Edward [ ] Peavey was, I do not know. (There was an Edward Peavey who joined the Dover First Church in 1723, the same year dismissed to the Berwick Church. Mary, wife of Edward [ ], was baptized at Dover in 1720, according to Rev. Hugh Adams records of Oyster River Church. She is mentioned in 1728 as joining Dover First Church., and the same year as going to the Berwick Church. Was Edward [4] of Dover another son of Edward [ ], the immigrant of Portsmouth, and was Edward [ ] of Nottingham a son of Edward [ ] of Dover? At all events, the children of Edward [ ] of New Durham settled in and near Tuftonboro. In 1788 his sons Joshua [ ] Peavey and Benjamin [ ] Peavey were on a list of petitioners to the state to incorporate the town of Alton, New Hampshire. Joshua [ ] Peavey and Mary, his wife, and Joshua [ ] alone, deeded land from 1790 to 1795. Some of the land was in New Durham. There is a Joseph [ ] Peavey of New Durham, who in 1797 conveyed land, and in 1800 and after. Joseph [ ] Peavey of Tuftonboro repeatedly conveyed to Tuftonboro and New Durham people. In 1805 Joseph [ ] and his wife, Abigail, of Tuftonboro conveyed. In 1815 and 1816 this same Joseph [ ] deeded to Joseph L. [ ] Peavey and Henry [ ] Peavey of Tuftonboro. Joseph [ ] was evidently the son of Edward [ ] of New Durham. |